Socialism : D I'm alright with it, but the logistics for knowing who is the benefactor of it might be a hassle, because we don't always have a clear image of what everyone's balance is a lot of the time.
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:31 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I like this. > ---- > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > > > > > On Sep 7, 2017, at 7:08 PM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > > > >> > >> On Sep 7, 2017, at 7:06 PM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On Sep 7, 2017, at 11:05 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> > wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >>>> It doesn't take 30 days due to a bug. > >>> [...] > >>>> I'd think about doing so as a protest; the difficulty towards casual > >>>> player economic participation has been pointed out and so far in > >>>> conversations, the designers of the system either aren't seeing the > >>>> great urgency to fix it, or think it's a feature. > >>> > >>> Actually, as I think of it, maybe some political hardball is in order > >>> here (there's not enough political wheeling-dealing that goes along > >>> here - among other things, this game is legislative simulation after > >>> all!) > >>> > >>> The registration bug is a form of economic protest, usable by the > >>> have-nots. So I state my intention: I will vote AGAINST any fix to > >>> the registration bug (which requires AI-3 to pass) until economic > >>> reforms for basic income are included/addressed. > >> > >> I am, at least, already well convinced of the necessity. I just haven’t > made the time to write a proposal about it. I do have a couple of loose > ideas: > >> > >> * Allow any player to receive a payment from Agora at most once a week, > without objection, if and only if no player has fewer shinies than they do. > >> > >> * Allow the Secretary/Treasuror to cause Agora to pay anyone, with > consent, out of Agora’s coffers, with a SHOULD guideline to use that power > to compensate for income gaps, or at the expense of immediately triggering > an election for the office, or something. > > > > * Redirect some proportion of each payment to Agora to the player with > the fewest Shinies, with a mechanism for breaking ties (such as “in > registration order”). > > > > -o > >
